Ego Boost

Well today I received a bit of an ego boost. I arrived at work this morning after having to be dragged out of bed, unwillingly, and taking the kids to child care. My first day back after essentially two weeks off, having been in Melbourne for the last 10 days or so. I read through all my unread emails here at the office (only 23 so it wasn't bad), and had just begun "working" when Ben Kowald from the Youth Dept came into the office and asked to speak to me in his office.

I followed... and Jen Dunkley (Children's Ministries Co-Ordinator) was in there as well. They asked me to close the door, and I wondered if something had gone down in the last couple of weeks that they needed to speak to me about. My mind was racing wondering what they could possibly be needing to discuss with me, since I work in the Finance Dept and don't really have too much to do with Children's Ministries at Oakden.

Ben began by saying there was something very important they needed to speak to me about. I must have looked concerned because he then quickly asked if I would be prepared to be a leader at the Creative Kids Camp coming up in October. They want me to lead the Vocal elective and the Mass Vocal subjects.

I have often wondered about doing something along those lines, but have never been asked to, so I was pretty excited about actually being asked to take it on. My immediate attention then turned to the date... the week after my trip to Melbourne for the CrossWays conference, which means my wife has the three kids by herself for a week. I told them that I would have to speak to my wife because I was going to be away for the week prior... and that I had planned to go to ACC in Melbourne (the same week as CKC) but withdrew due to the CrossWays conference. They were quick to tell me I could bring my family and stay in a unit by ourselves for the duration of the camp so that my wife didn't have to look after them by herself.

After speaking with Brooke briefly, she said just tell them "Yes" and we'll work it out later. Looks like she'll come down on the Monday with me as it's a public holiday and she doesn't work Tuesdays. Take Wednesday off, come back to Adelaide on the Thursday for work (have someone look after the kids for us for a few hours) and then on Friday they have child care, so it all seems to work out pretty well.

I'll have to organise myself fairly quickly and get music organised, and a schedule to teach, but I'm really looking forward to it.

The whole ACC/CrossWays timing seems to be a little more than coincidence after the events this morning. I'll have to do a lot of praying to make sure I select the right music for the job. But merely being asked to do the job was a nice little ego boost.